Peter Vu's Ironman Blog - Vineman 7/31/10

This e-mail via Zen Habits on passion struck a chord today.

“You need to be exposed to many things,” she told me. “You should expose yourself even though you might not know if you’ll be interested.”

When you find something that catches your attention: follow-up; see if it sticks.

In other words, discovering passion requires a dedication to unstructured exploration. You have to leave large swathes of free time in your schedule (a technique I call underscheduling), and fill this time with the exploration of things that might be interesting. Of equal importance, when something catches your attention you must leverage your free time to aggressively follow up.

While I'm toiling away on my graduate school applications, work and volunteering, I'm also constantly thinking about what's next for me...